Nidra Poller

Nidra Poller
Born	1935 (age 90–91) Jessup, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Occupations	Author translator writer journalist
Years active	1966–present

Nidra Poller (born 1935) is an American author, novelist, translator and writer who has lived in Paris since 1972. In later years, she has also been a reporter and the Paris editor for Pajamas Media.

Biography

Poller is Jewish, and was born to an observant family in Jessup, Pennsylvania. She received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a Master of Arts in writing seminars from the Johns Hopkins University. She began her literary career in 1966 with the publication of the short story "Wedding Party in Piazza Navona" in the review Perspectives, and was a professor at Federal City College, Washington, D.C., from 1969 to 1972. Originally a writer of fiction and translator from French to English, she switched to journalism in 2000, due to perceived French anti-Israel reactions to the Second Intifada, and later anti-Americanism following the September 11 attacks.

Poller has contributed to publications such as The Wall Street Journal, National Review, FrontPage Magazine, The New York Sun, Commentary, New English Review, Middle East Quarterly, American Thinker, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel and many others. As a Zionist, her writings include observations on society and politics, including a perceived strong anti-Israeli bias in France, the Muhammad al-Durrah incident—a "myth" and "a crudely fabricated video" as she described it in her 2014 book about the incident, and anti-Jewish violence in France such as the murder of Ilan Halimi. In addition to being a writer, Poller is also a novelist, author of illustrated books for youths, and a translator, notably of the philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, her translations having been said to manage "to preserve the richness of Levinas's evocative and difficult French", and which "are rendered into a very readable English".

She participated in the international counter-jihad conferences in Brussels in 2007 and in 2012, and has been on the advisory board of the International Free Press Society.

She has remained an American citizen ever since moving to France in 1972, and does not hold French citizenship.